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...Quayle is doing most of the heavy political lifting, arousing the G.O.P. faithful by labeling Perot a "temperamental tycoon" and attacking totems of the "cultural elite," from Murphy Brown to Time Warner and its rap recording artist Ice-T, as out of touch with family values. Bush likes to pretend he finds such negative tactics distasteful. When encouraged to comment on his sidekick's speeches, Bush is careful to distance himself with such lines as, "You better ask Mr. Quayle." But the Vice President isn't free-lancing; Bush campaign chairman Bob Teeter personally approved Quayle's characterization of Perot...
...whips off the heads of the mannequins. Julia Roberts tells Richard Gere she wants the fairy tale. Cat tells Bat, 'I would love to live with you forever in your castle, just like in a fairy tale. I just couldn't live with myself. So don't pretend this is a happy ending...
Even Bush did not pretend his policy of engagement with Beijing's communist autocrats had influenced them much. His statement found improvements in China's treatment of dissidents "insufficient" and said its policies overall leave the U.S. "deeply disappointed." As if to prove Washington's point, police arrested a lone demonstrator in Tiananmen Square last week and beat foreign journalists who were watching. Also marking the anniversary, Amnesty International reported that thousands of political prisoners are still in jail in China. Says the organization: "Unfair trial, torture, long-term detention without charge or trial and summary executions continue...
...claims that Bean-Bayog drove 28-year-old Paul Lozano to kill himself by making him pretend to be her 3-year-old child have lingered...
Some favorite conservative nostrums would actually cost plenty, such as privatizing public housing or changing current welfare rules that penalize people for taking a job, saving money or keeping their families intact. But conservatives usually pretend the cost doesn't exist. It isn't recalcitrant liberals standing in the way of such reforms. It is a national reluctance to spend the money nurtured by conservatives themselves...